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AQUAPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aquaphobia mean?
• AQUAPHOBIA (noun)
The noun AQUAPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of drowning
Familiarity information: AQUAPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of drowning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("aquaphobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
Derivation:
aquaphobic (abnormally afraid of water)
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